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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (of Norman origin) : nickname for a man with dark hair or a swarthy complexion, from a diminutive of Anglo-Norman French carbon ‘charcoal’.
  • Catalan and southern French : from a personal name, Carbonellus, derived from Latin carbo ‘coal’, ‘charcoal’.

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